Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953): From 'école Scherer' to 'politique Des Auteurs'
- ISBN-10
- 9462985804
- ISBN-13
- 9789462985803
- Category
- Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-04-16
- Publisher
- Film Theory in Media History
- Author
- Marco Grosoli
Description
In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for Cahiers du Cinéma launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer inspection of the hundreds of little-read articles by these critics reveals that the movement rested upon a much more layered and intriguing aesthetics of cinema. This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory, built around a reconstruction of Eric Rohmer's early but decisive leadership of the group, whereby he laid down the foundations for the eventual emergence of their full-fledged auteurism.
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